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Description: Rookes Hall with attached building warehouse (formerly listed as Rookes Hall)

Address: Rookes Hall Rookes Lane Norwood Green Halifax West Yorkshire HX3 8PU

Grade: II

Group detail: Rookes Lane (west side)

Full description:
House, mid C17 with attached warehouse (now garage to ground floor) partly built over service end, mid C18. Hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Double pile on plan. 2-span roof with coped gable and kneelers, with gable stacks to right hand end. 3-bay front, quoins, string course. Left hand bay has 2-storey porch sheltering the entry to the through passage. The porch has an outer door with moulded jambs and shaped lintel. Above the door are flanking miniature columns and sundial dated 1638, solid parapet and finials. The inner door has a broad-chamfered surround. All are double chamfered mullioned windows having lost all transoms and most mullions. Only king mullions remain (most renewed). Window to porch was originally of 6 lights. 2nd bay has cross-window / fire-window now solid over unusual 4-light oriel with canted side; and remains of large mullioned and transomed 20-light hall window, with 12-light mullioned and transomed window over. 3rd bay has 16-light mullioned and transomed window to parlour with 12-light over. Between the 2nd and 3rd bays at 1st floor, is cross-window with hoodmould and projecting rainwater head. Right hand return wall has evidence for cross-window now solid and other mullioned windows of 2 lights now altered. Rear of double pile has quoins and double chamfered mullioned windows of 4 and 6 lights to ground floor with one window of several lights now reduced by inserted door but still with hoodmould over. To 1st floor are two 12-light mullioned and transomed windows and a 2-light window between (all with most mullions and transoms removed). Rear doorway of through passage, has large square-headed lintel and composite jambs with taking-in door over (part solid and window). One small 2-light window survives from earlier service room with raised roof in large warehouse connected with textile manufacture. 4 stacks. Interior: The through passage has heavy joists 7" x 4-1/2" stop chamfered at the east end; backing on to the passage is a fireplace with moulded jambs and elaborate stops and shallow arched lintel. A leaf pattern is carved in the stone surround. The parlour has fireplace with shallow arched lintel with carved spandrels with shields and moulded jambs. The remains of a fine building, severely mutilated. (Previous state illustrated in). G. Hepworth, Brighouse, its scenery and antiquities (Halifax, 1885), p.21. D. Nortcliffe, Buildings of Brighouse, (Brighouse 1978), p.9.